[Caml-list] Re: GODI is shutting down

[Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>]

On 24-07-2013, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2013, at 09:36, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> However, the main problem (the one I wanted to point out) still remains: every time you want to fix a constraint you have to change your _oasis, modify the package tarball, and make a new release -- which means you can never fix constraints on already released packages. But I guess in this case, it's fine if the _oasis and OPAM files are not in sync.
>> 
>> You could include a patch against the _oasis file in the OPAM (or
>> GODI) metadata.
>
> That's not enough.  You also need a build-time requirement to regenerate
> the OASIS autogenerated files by calling 'oasis setup', which increases
> the total build time significantly.
>
> Some projects (such as Mirage) also use a forked OASIS to add some
> specialised features in the generated output, and so need special rules
> to regenerate them.
>

Are you talking about the the output-obj ?

Your pull request is pending and I am more than willing to integrate it,
but given the copyright and license you put, I cannot... Please fix it
and stop having a branch of OASIS for that.
https://github.com/ocaml/oasis/pull/7

Cheers,
Sylvain Le Gall
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